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Global mobile news round-up: 11 December

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week.. Are universal logins the next big money spinner for operators, Wal-Mart enters the mobile payments space, consumers are embracing digital health and wellness devices and Apple Watch 2 to be unveiled at March event.. plus many more…
Sam Hill
December 11, 2015
Privacy

Exploring consumer trust in mobile with Mozilla

At the inaugural European Consumer Trust Summit recently held in London, industry experts, regulators and startups gathered to discuss the issues surrounding consumer trust in mobile and how best to build trust in the mobile platform. MEFTV spoke with Chris Riley, head of Public Policy at Mozilla, a member of…
Sam Hill
December 10, 2015
Opinions

Estonia’s big idea: nation as a service

Identity is the online world’s biggest problem. If only we could prove who we are, we could make things happen really fast and very safely. So is the world ready for ‘sign in with Estonia’? Are you Estonian? Like the composer Arvo Pärt or the founders of TransferWise Taavet Hinrikus…
Sam Hill
December 10, 2015
Mobile PaymentsTech Focus

Retail focus: A brief history of mPOS

In barely five years, mPOS has transformed business for thousands of small merchants worldwide. It’s also yielded one headline-making IPO. But questions remain about the space. Here, MEF Minute takes a look at the past, present and future of mPOS... Shoppers hate queues. Shop assistants hate queues. CEOs of retail…
Tim Banks
December 9, 2015
Africa

15 stats that explore the mobile market in Sub-Saharan Africa

Africa is the undoubtedly a ‘mobile-first’ continent. As well as social and entertainment, services such as mobile money, mHealth and education are just a few of the areas in which the African mobile ecosystem is already delivering social and economic benefits. Here we look at the stats behind one billion…
Tim Banks
December 8, 2015
m-commerceMEF Asia

Infographic: m-commerce in Southeast Asia

85 per cent of consumers in Southeast Asia are comfortable shopping on mobile devices. That's according to this recent research and infographic from e-commerce firm iprice. There are however some bumps in the road. 67 per cent of respondents listed a “better payment method” as the most important improvement to…
Tim Banks
December 8, 2015
Stats Roundup

Mobile market stats round-up: 7 December

1.4 mil smartphones sold in 2015: global market slowdown, proximity payments to triple in value and 1.1 billion fintech customers will use mobile biopmetrics in 2020. Get your weekly dose of mobile reports and data in our global mobile market stats round up…
Sam Hill
December 7, 2015
5 minutes with

5 minutes with… OLA mobile

In our 5 minutes with profiles, MEF members talk about their business, their aspirations for the future and the wider mobile industry. This week, Michael Tomlins, CEO, introduces Infomedia Group subsidiary, Humley. OLA mobile is a global Mobile Performance company specialized in User Acquisition focused on CPA (Cost per Acquisition)…
Sam Hill
December 7, 2015
News Roundup

Global mobile news round-up: 4 December

Find out the week’s top mobile stories from around the world. This week… 34% of Thanksgiving & Black Friday sales were mobile, Swatch and Visa team up for wearable payments, Blackberry into Africa, out of Pakistan… plus much more.
Sam Hill
December 4, 2015
Opinions

Many happy returns SMS – the great survivor

Today is SMS’s birthday. To celebrate, Tim Green tries to convince us that the messaging medium resembles an old Hollywood character actor: grizzled but effective… SMS is a bit like the actor Robert Vaughn, isn’t it? You think surely it/he is dead - but no, there he is on Wikipedia.…
Tim Green
December 3, 2015
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